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DECEMBER 6, 2018

One person pushing to put learning science into practice on college campuses is Sanjay Sarma, vice president for open learning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They give instant feedback on exams. You have been researching learning science and digging into that. You're motivated, dopamine flows.

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JULY 11, 2023

When you think about that in an educational context, it … really opens up the opportunity to give more students the kinds of things that are better supporting their learning.” Also, the kinds of questions and feedback that they're giving us is helping us better improve the course materials.

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JUNE 9, 2020

Among the choices educators make are what instructional technique to use, when and how to give feedback, and when and how to test student knowledge. The third is motivational — the fuel that keeps students pushing forward when they get stuck on difficult material. That’s referred to as the cognitive aspect.

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